CAVITE MUTINY

1872
 Cavite
mutiny
a major factor in the awakening of
nationalism among filipinos
 A rebellion Comes
MUTINY against from an
authority. old verb
“MUTINE”
which
means
“REVOLT”.
Cavite mutiny
• Uprising of military personnel of Fort San Felipe (the
Spanish arsenal in Cavite Philippines) on January 20,
1872.
• Around 200 soldiers and laborers rose up in the
belief that it would elevate to a national uprising. The
mutiny was unsuccessful, and government soldiers
executed many of the participants.
 Spanish
accounts of
the cavite
mutiny
 Jose
Montero y
Vidal
• Spanish historian
• His account centered
on how the event was
an attempt in
overthrowing the
Spanish government in
the Philippines.
“...the idea of attaining their
• His account on mutiny was independence. It was towards this goal
criticized as woefully that they started to work. With the
blased. powerful; assistance if a certain section
of the native clergy...”
 Governor
Rafael
Izquierdo

• Implicated the native

clergy, who were active in
the movement toward
secularization of
parishes.
• In a biased report, he
highlighted the attempt to
overthrow the Spanish
government in the
Philippines to install a
new ‘hari” in the persons
of the Burgos and Zamora.
 Spanish Accounts
Underscore the reason for the
“Revolution” abolition of privileges
enjoyed by the workers of Cavite arsenal
such as exemption from payment of tribute
and being employed in Polos y Servicios
(Force Labor)

Presence of the native clergy, against the

Spanish friars, “conspired and supported”
the rebels.
 in the Spanish accounts,

1872
Was premeditated, apart of a big
conspiracy among educated leaders,
mestizos, lawyers and residents of
Manila and Cavite.

They allegedly plan to liquidate high-

ranking Spanish officers then kill
friars.
 The accounts detailed that on

January
20, 1872
The district of Sampaloc celebrated
the feast of the Virgin Loreto, came
with it were some fireworks display.

The Caviteños mistook this a the

signal to commence with the attack.
 Spanish
Accounts
• 200 men were led by
Sergeant Lamadrid
attacked Spanish officers
at sight and seized the
arsenal.
• Izquierdo, upon learning
the attack, ordered
reinforcement of the
Spanish forces in Cavite to
quell the revolt.
• The revolution was easily
crushed, when Manileños
who were expected to aid
the Caviteños did not
arrive.
in result,
leaders of
the plot were
killed.
Fathers Gomez, Burgos,
and Zamora or also
known as the
GOMBURZA
Were tried by a court-
martial and sentenced
to be executed.
 On

February
17, 1872
The GOMBURZA were executed by
garrote in public serve as a threat to
Filipinos never attempt to fight the
Spaniards again

This is a scene purportedly witnessed

by a young Jose Rizal
A Response
to Injustice:
The Filipino
Version of
the Incident
 Dr. Trinidad
Hermenegildo
Pardo De
Tavera
• A Filipino scholar and
researcher
• Wrote a Filipino version of
the bloody incident in
Cavite.

the incident was merely a munity by Filpino soldiers

and the laborers of the Cavite arsenal to the
dissatisfaction arising from the draconian policies
of Izquierdo (abolition of privileges and prohibition
of the founding of the school of arts and trades)
The Central
Spanish
Government
Was planning to deprive the friars
of all the powers of intervention in
matters of civil government and
direction and management of
educational institutions.
An excerpt from

Pardo de Tavera’s
Account of the Cavite
Mutiny
“…filipino had great hopes of an
improvement in the affairs of their
country..”

“…the friar feared that their power

in the colony would soon be
complete a thing of the past..”
Edmund
Plauchut

• A French writer
• Complemented Tavera’s
account and analyzed the
motivation of the 872
Cavite Mutiny.

“…the arrival in Manila of Gen. Izquierdo put a

sudden end to all dreams of reforms
…such a policy must really end in a strong desire
on the art of the other to repress cruelly..”
 Differing
Accounts
Friars used Cavite mutiny as a part of a larger
conspiracy to cement their dominances.

They showcased the mutiny as a part of a Greater

Conspiracy in the Philippines by the Filipinos to
overthrow the Spanish Government.

Unintentionally, it resulted in the martyrdom of

GOMBURZA.

And Paved way to the revolution culminating in

1898
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